top 100 rock songs...disgraceful

[toxichunter2000]

I was looking on the net the other day, curious as to what were the top 100 rock songs of all time, thinking that stairway to heaven or somthin like that would dominate with no problem, and what do i find instead? this...thing
1 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Rolling Stones
2 Respect Aretha Franklin
3 Stairway To Heaven Led Zeppelin
4 Like A Rolling Stone Bob Dylan
5 Born To Run Bruce Springsteen
6 Hotel California The Eagles
7 Light My Fire The Doors
8 Good Vibrations Beach Boys
9 Hey Jude The Beatles
10 Imagine John Lennon
11 Louie Louie The Kingsmen
12 Yesterday The Beatles
13 My Generation The Who
14 What's Going On Marvin Gaye
15 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
16 Layla Derek & The Dominos
17 Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
18 Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley
19 American Pie Don McLean
20 A Day In The Life The Beatles
21 I Got You (I Feel Good) James Brown
22 Superstition Stevie Wonder
23 I Want To Hold Your Hand The Beatles
24 Brown Sugar Rolling Stones
25 Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
26 Sympathy For The Devil Rolling Stones
27 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
28 You Really Got Me The Kinks
29 Oh Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
30 Bridge Over Troubled Waters Simon & Garfunkel
31 Hound Dog Elvis Presley
32 Let It Be The Beatles
33 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay Otis Redding
34 All Along The Watchtower Jimi Hendrix
35 Walk This Way Aerosmith
36 My Girl The Temptations
37 Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley & His Comets
38 I Heard It Through The Grapevine Marvin Gaye
39 Proud Mary Creedence Clearwater Revival
40 Born To Be Wild Steppenwolf
41 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
42 Every Breath You Take The Police
43 What'd I Say Ray Charles
44 Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd
45 That'll Be The Day Buddy Holly & The Crickets
46 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin
47 Dream On Aerosmith
48 California Dreamin' Mamas & The Papas
49 Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrisson
50 Wild Thing The Troggs
51 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Crosby, Stills & Nash
52 Beat It Michael Jackson
53 Great Balls Of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
54 Stayin' Alive Bee Gees
55 For What It's Worth Buffalo Springfield
56 Blowin' In The Wind Bob Dylan
57 Twist And Shout The Beatles
58 Piano Man Billy Joel
59 She Loves You The Beatles
60 Space Oddity David Bowie
61 Strawberry Fields Forever The Beatles
62 Kashmir Led Zeppelin
63 Crazy Patsy Cline
64 London Calling The Clash
65 Jumpin' Jack Flash Rolling Stones
66 Rock & Roll Led Zeppelin
67 Let's Stay Together Al Green
68 All Shook Up Elvis Presley
69 Maggie May Rod Stewart
70 Your Song Elton John
71 Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
72 God Only Knows Beach Boys
73 The Twist Chubby Checker
74 Good Golly, Miss Molly Little Richard
75 Sunshine Of Your Love Cream
76 California Girls Beach Boys
77 Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran
78 Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins
79 A Hard Day's Night The Beatles
80 Fire And Rain James Taylor
81 Gloria Them
82 Sexual Healing Marvin Gaye
83 Start Me Up Rolling Stones
84 More Than A Feeling Boston
85 Roxanne The Police
86 We Are The Champions Queen
87 Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan
88 Somebody To Love Jefferson Airplane
89 Stand By Me Ben E. King
90 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On Jerry Lee Lewis
91 You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC
92 When Doves Cry Prince & The Revolution
93 In The Midnight Hour Wilson Pickett
94 Gimme Some Lovin' Spencer Davis Group
95 Jump Van Halen
96 Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen
97 No Woman No Cry Bob Marley & The Wailers
98 La Bamba Ritchie Valens
99 We've Only Just Begun The Carpenters
100 Papa Was A Rolling Stone The Temptations

At this point, no comment on it. the list is...just not good. make your comments on it as you please, but maybe we should as a forum try and make our own list together rather than have others that only know like 2 bands make these lists.

 

[Martha Washington]

I'm all for making lists.
I make one before I go to the bathroom every morning.
Personally, I've got no problem with the list but even though 100 is a lot, it's not nearly enough.

Any list that doesn't include 'Sugar Sugar' by the Archies is okay by me.

 

[willg54]

Purely arbitrary. Given 1000 different people, if u gave them these 100 songs to list from number one to number 100, you would have 1000 different orderings of songs. Don't take it to heart that someone, or a small group of people, put together this list, as if it were the one and only list of the top 100 songs. Personally, I think that "Time of the Season" by the Zombies is the all time, number one song of the rock and roll century. Others might call me delusional, and perhaps, rightly so. We could make a list here, but how many people would agree with the order of songs. There would have to be lots of compromise, if we were ever gonna finish a top 100 list. So, just enjoy them in the order that YOU wish . . .and "rock on, dude!"
ps. Ok, now I'm REALLY pissed. I was forced to put on my reading glasses to check the dictionary and make shure I was spelling the word "compromise" correctly.

 

[Zombeels]

The list seems pretty safe. I've seen a lot of similiar lists and they all contain 80% of the same songs. Not too many songs from the last 20 years. I prefer to see people's own personal top lists.

 

[angshu]

same here. it looks like quite a predictable list. some of those songs were pretty damnb influential too (satisfaction, like a rolling stone)...

some of them have become generic rock anthems over the years (stairway, hotel california... though i can stand neither).

a lot of them are pretty big era-definers.
the problem with era-definers is that they aren't necessarily GOOD songs. they're usually a synopsis of the act's career in six easy minutes. (light my fire, like a rolling stone), but that's just the way it is.

but as lists go, this is quite standard fare.

how about we make our own lists?

my top 10 for today...
1.desolation row - bob dylan
2.for no one - the beatles
3.accidents will happen - elvis costello
4.venus - television
5.insignificance - pearl jam
6.chest fever - the band
7.suspicious minds - elvis presley
8.sacrificial bonfire - XTC
9.you don't have to say you love me - dusty springfield
10. box of rain - the grateful dead

again, this will change in the next hour, and i'm too dead to compile a hundred song list, but i will eventually! anybody else?

 

[Martha Washington]

I pick 'Wooly Bully' by Sam the Sham and the Pharohs.
'matty told hatty' sheer unadulterated GENIUS!!!!

only 99 more to go!

 

[angshu]

silas stingy for #11!

 

[cunundrumpw]

In my opinion, Stairway to Heaven is the best rock song ever composed.

 

[PennyLane12]

The Fact that Bruce Springsteen is in top 10 shows that no one knows what the **** their talking about...the Rolling Stones are great but no where near number one, they're a band that everyone knows, that everyone loves but they didn't create the greatest rock song. The People of Rolling Stone magazine who wrote this list clearly don't know anything about classic rock, or the legends who dominate the culture. In my opinon the top 10 songs should have been..."A Day in the Life- The Beatles, Breathe- Pink Floyd, Wasted and I can't Find my way Home- Blind Faith, Crossroads- Cream, 10,000 Miles Beneath my Brain- 10 years after, Highway to Hell- AC/DC, Tommy- The Who, Sympothy For the Devil- Rolling Stones, Peace Frog- The Doors, and Red House- Jimi Hendrix, but then again thats just my opinon. Anyhow I disagree with this list.

 

[toxichunter2000]

honestly you guys, stairway to heaven placed third???? how many times have yuou seen that happen? and the song respect placed over stairway to hevaen is an even bigger disgrace. I know that everyones list is different, but come on, respect is bein placed over so many great song like behind blue eyes and purple haze. now at least gimme this, that is really bad. also, the rolling stones are defiently not good enough to be numero uno. there good and all, but not good enough to beat others.